Passenger-car.



R. H. & E. MOORE.

PASSENGER OAR.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 15,1908.

Patented Oct. 27, 1908,

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT E. MOORE AND MARGUERITE E. MOORE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

PASSENGER-CAB.

No. 902,431. Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Oct. 27, 1908.Application filed July 15, 1908. Serial No. 4=3,6e5.

b all whom it may concern: pivotally mounted on stanchion b, the pur- Beit known that we, ROBERT H. MOORE pose of this bar being to create arailing and MAiiGUEin'rE E. MooiiE, citizens of the on either side ofthe ends of a passenger-car, United States, and residents of No. e Testby transferring the free end of said bar from 40 Sixty-fifth street, inthe city of New York, the socket in stanchion on one side of car, tocounty of New York, and State of New the socket in stanchion on oppositeside of York, have invented a new and useful Imcar, the railing servingto separate the pas provement in Passenger-Cars, of which the sengersleaving from those boarding, on

following is a specification. either side of the ends of apassenger-car. Our invention relates to the improvement cl. indicates apivot in stanchion b. i on passenger-cars, and the objects of our 6.indicates a socket in stanchion 64. improvement are: f. indicates a widedoorway on each side First. To facilitate a simultaneous inof the endsof a passenger-car. gress and egress of passengers. indicates a doorway.

Second. To separate passengers board- It. indicates seats. ing fromthose leaving. indicates windows.

Third. To save time. \Ve claim: Ye obtain these objects by the means Ina passenger-car, the combination of a illustrated in the differentviews, in whichwide doorway on each side of the ends of Figure 1 is asectional view of the end of car, and a stanchion vertically adjusted toa passenger-car with the improvement on it. flood and located in thecenter or thereaboiit Fig. 2 is a top view of the same car after of eachdoorway, a socket in said stanchion,

the removal of roof. and a stanchion vertically adjusted to floorSimilar letters refer to similar parts and centrally located between thestanchion throughout the different views. iii doorway on each side ofcar, and a bar (1.. indicates a stanchion verti =ally adjusted one endof which is pivotally mounted to to floor and located in the center ortheresaid centrally located stanchion, the free about of a wide doorwayon each side ofthe end of said bar being tenii'iorarily engaged ends ofa passenger-car, the said stanchion in socket of stanchion on eitherside of car, havifng a socket for temporarily engaging for the purposeall substantially as set forth. the rec end of the ivoted bar (1.

6. indicates a staii chion verticall ad'iistl ROBERT MOORE y lMARGUERITE E. MOORE.

ed to floor and centrally located between the stanchions a and a on eachside of the ends of a passenger-car.

0. indicates a bar, one end of which is Vitnesses HELEN E. ENGLISH,SARAH C. ROBINSON.

